[dfwgator]

We just smiled and waved/sittin’ on that sack of seeds.

[The Magical Mischief Tour]

Buying legal items and growing legal plants will now get you a visit from the police...

Welcome to Germany circa 1935...

[Clintonfatigued]

The Drug War has come to this. Innocent farmers are harrassed while illegal aliens swarm the country. Disgraceful.

[Huck]

A lot of conservatives who love to prattle on about freedom have no problem with this sort of thing. Gotta fight that demon weed.

[TigersEye]

First they came for the unauthorized tobacco growers.

But I wasn't growing tobacco so I didn't say anything.

Then they came for the unauthorized pot growers.

But I wasn't growing pot so I didn't say anything.

Then they came for the tomato growers...

...and there wasn't anybody left to speak for us.

[Cicero]

So, what’s the big deal. They visited his home, politely asked to see the growing equipment, and then left. Why is that harrassment?

If there had been any real harrassment, I presume that this guy would have described it.

[microgood]

Any judge that gave a search warrant based on this should be disbarred and sent to a Siberia concentration camp.

[svcw]

What a flipping waste of taxpayer’s money to track down pot growers and to track down people they think maybe might have probably could have bought equipment that possibly they think might be but no evidence off growing pot.

[Selmore]

Oh the irony.

Independence, Missouri

Independence, get it?

[RichInOC]

“Oh, hey, what’s in this s**t, man?”
“Mostly Maui Wowie, man...”
“Yeah?”
“...but it’s got some Contadina in it.”
“What’s Contadina?”
“[PUUUUUUFFFF!!!] It’s tomato.”
“What?”

[VeniVidiVici]

Is it ok to track fertilizer sales?

Just trying to figure out where everyone’s line in the sand is.

[forgotten man]

“Hundreds of marijuana plants were seized by police officers on 4/20, a day celebrated in the drug culture to use marijuana”

Why is the date of April 20 significant to pot heads?

[pyx]

As people start to grow their own food, I expect we are going to see a LOT more of this sort of thing happening. Indeterminate tomato bushes look nothing like marijuana.(At least from the on-line photographs I have seen.) Cucumber, pole bean, snow pea, squash and pretty much all culinary herbs in no way resemble marijuana plants.

A person can't eat marijuana and in my opinion, fruit bearing viable vegetable plants and culinary herbs will be worth much much more than marijuana in the near future.

[NormsRevenge]

New and Improved ‘Round-Up’ by DataBase

like shooting fish in a barrel

[dangus]

Whacko Tomacco?

[count-your-change]

I think the real question of legality was whether there was any ripe tomatoes. The state police needed to finish out their BLT’s according to unnamed sources.
One officer said that since the grower has an extra jar of mayo no charges were brought.

[Nate505]

Independence police said the Missouri Highway Patrol monitors stores that sell hydroponic growing equipment, and they use those sales to track down illegal marijuana growing operations. That information is what led them to the man's door.

The Missouri Highway Patrol appears to be a solid group of morons.